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Don't think I'll ever play Things From The Flood or the Modiphius Conan game system, both are really appealing lore-wise but the former has mechanics I despise and the latter is only interesting to me and no one else in my friendgroup.

I'm realizing now that I wasn't even courteous enough to start off the thread with a few examples of my own, my bad! My first vote goes to Things From The Flood rpg, might work for other people and the setting is very cool but it's just not the type of system I'd ever be interested in actually...

The purpose of this thread is not to provide WotC with feedback as to the layout of the MM and DMG so they can be altered for 5.5E, as I presume they have already finalized much of the layout of those books and probably wouldn't take into account a random poster's thoughts anyway, it's more of...

It's very sad to see this sort of thing (potentially) happen with TTRPGs. In video games, it at least makes sense that the rate at which the development company can produce content (or, more often, does produce content) is outpaced by the progression rate of voracious players, leading to a...

I've always liked Discord because it combines the efficiency and interactivity of instant messaging with the feel of a sophisticated IRC. It might help that I'm a zoomer and I play with zoomers though, everyone has Discord on their phones and they get notifications pushed straight to the...

Meh, I don't like the idea of making every class extremely MAD and samey, it makes some narrative sense that a fighter who swings around a greatsword all day has better equipment carrying ability and more meat on their bones.

Not the best metaphor you could have used but I think quibbling over the definition of support sort of sidesteps the issue of the OP being so vague as to be equivalent to saying that the Novel supports both horror and romance genres, there wasn't much discussion of mechanical support for the...

Thread rules: No FATAL or Racial Holy War because, well, duh. The purpose of this thread should be to discuss bad mechanics in RPGs and how they can best be avoided to develop better games in the future.

If you really want to lean into the vampiric blight aspect, I think it would be really cool to have the "immortality" of the Druid Lich come not from regenerating at a phylactery but instead from having some distributed net of consciousness shared by everything from a full-grown blight to a...

Yeah I do agree that it's a little silly and hyperbolic but whatever, my yum your yuck and whatnot, not gonna go to bat for WotC's publishing schedule just gonna argue which type of gameplay I think 5e is perfectly capable of supporting.

Yeah, I mean, I can't argue with that reasoning, a Game of Thrones book would probably sell better than a Stranger Things tie-in and would serve as a good home for mechanically-based scheming and political machinations.

Best way to do it might be cribbing it into a book like Xanathar's then, with about as much detailing as traps got in that book.

The 5e release schedule is definitely another unfortunate feature of WotC's current design philosophy, which seems to be releasing extremely generic products infrequently so that the maximum number of people possible buy the products when they come out. Volo's, Mordenkainen's, Tasha's...

Sure, I do sincerely hope you get an option that accommodates what you're looking for in 5.5e, I'm not the type to care that much about a book "going to waste" because it's not for me, I just don't see the point. Not really going to bat for 5e either, just interested in discussing the merits of...

I think there are lots of interesting possibilities, but here are some I came up with off the top of my head: - An evil Wood Woad. Basically a druid who sacrificed themselves to assimilate with some vile corrupted tree to protect a bramble-choked forest and became an aspect of nature, a Wood...

All Tabaxi party in a world of vengeful Kenku

I am DnD monogamous but only because that's the only game system anyone has the books for or wants to learn. My group didn't want to buy the Shadow of the Demon Lord books or try the Modiphius Conan system so they sit unused on my shelf.

I don't disagree at all to be honest, I am just uncertain whether or not the 5E crowd has a significant number of players who would want those rules. I personally haven't bought a 5E book since descent into Avernus and I never cared what they published, so I am very much open to WotC publishing...

This entire discussion just comes down to a disagreement over what "supports" means, Minigiant is aware of this distinction as is Micah Sweet, they simply think that "supports" means more than, for example, "supports modding" in that it actually has a set of rules dedicated to it and is...

I guess the issue is that players like myself struggle to see the value in making mechanically explicit the sort of social interactions already encouraged by the backgrounds and their associated personality traits, flaws, etc that are featured in the PHB. Should there actually be a huge demand...